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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 21, 2019, 01:52:31 am
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Check this out, also per the article, Milo Gibson, Mel Gibson's son will play the subject of the article and upcoming movie,
Army Ranger Capt. Robert Yllescas.
A Nebraska teen's senior photos honored her father who was killed in Afghanistan
By Ryan Prior, CNN
Updated 8:18 PM ET, Tue August 20, 2019
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Photographer Susanne Beckmann edited her photos of Julia Yllescas to include Julia's father, who never got a chance to see his daughter grow up.
(CNN)It's been "extremely, extremely" tough growing up without her father, Julia Yllescas tells CNN. "It gets harder and harder every year."
Army Ranger Capt. Robert Yllescas never came home after he deployed to Afghanistan when Julia was 7 years old.
As she started her last year of high school in Aurora, Nebraska, she had a photographer edit an angelic visage of her father into her senior photos so that he could be with her during the most monumental moment of her life.
He'll be portrayed in an upcoming film
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Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/us/nebraska-senior-photos-father-afghanistan-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/us/nebraska-senior-photos-father-afghanistan-trnd/index.html)
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:crying:
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I saw this on FB...what a wonderful idea...
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I'm tired of seeing our best being wasted over there. I cannot wait to get them out of that god forsaken part of the world.